Servers are the pillars of the modern software-defined datacenter features with cloud-enabled infrastructure. Servers provides scalable business architecture, intelligent automation, and integrated security for workloads. Servers should have expertise in system design, storage and virtualization to handle new type of workload such as

Modernizing with Big Data Analytics which rapidly analyze large amounts of data,

Cloud transformation,

Mobility which quickly deliver apps and services,

Upgrading converged or flash optimized servers that can improve compute and I/O performance.

Software-defined data center

Updated Server Technology

Server technology has an entirely new strategy in which the focus moves from the box itself to the pool of resources that can be located anywhere, scaled to any workload and available at all times instead of hardware centered data centers with dedicated servers and appliances.

Processing resources are pools that are virtualized and converged with networking, storage and management.

Latest Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family

The Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Skylake SP has four different levels with new RAS features, and support for up to eight sockets.

Platinum

Intel Platinum 81XX Processor

Have higher TDP ranges (105W – 205W) Vs Gold series(85W – 200W)

Have higher memory capacity support

Gold

Intel Xeon Gold 6100

Limited to up to 4 sockets.

It has a full 3 UPI links

Supports full DDR4-2666 memory speeds

It has both FMA units operational and

Scales up to 22 cores 44 threads.

Xeon Gold 5100(Another name Intel Xeon Jade)

Run with up to four sockets

But can only handle 2 UPI links meaning socket to socket bandwidth will be limited.

With only DDR4-2400 support,

Up to 14 cores 28 threads

Deployed in 1 or 2 socket configurations.

Generally, Silver and Bronze levels that only

Support up to two sockets each,

Have only 1 FMA unit,

Have a lower RAS feature set and

Lower 9.6GT/s UPI links.

Silver

The Intel Xeon Silver 4100 series

Limited to 12 cores 24 threads and

DDR4-2400 memory operation.

Targeted at lower power workloads.

Bronze:

Intel Xeon Bronze 3100

The successor to the low-end Intel like Xeon E5-2603, E5-2609 With only 8 cores

Memory speed to DDR4-2133 (2015 level)

Light the platform at minimum cost parts but significant step up from the old generations.

Final Words: Next-generation Intel CPU in this series is Knight’s Mill Scaler Processor V2 (Knight’s Mill SP v2) with higher TDP. LGA3647 was designed for that.

AMD EPYC has more memory capacity across the range (2TB per socket versus 768GB for Intel.)

The Intel Xeon SKU level v. AMD EPYC memory configuration

For one or two socket configurations, moving from Xeon Platinum 8180 to 8180M is about $3,000 more just to be able to use an additional 768GB of RAM for 1.5GB total.

AMD has parts at a few hundred dollars that can handle more RAM than two Intel Xeon Gold 5100 series parts or Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 SKU.

The fact that AMD has more RAM slots and DDR4 channels in its platform means that one can use lower cost 32GB DIMMs before moving to 64GB DIMMs which can save a lot. Also, while at the high capacities using 128GB LRDIMMs RAM costs can be higher side per socket making CPU pricing a small drop compared.

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